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First Weekend of May Collection

In my last post I’d promised to write something more about my new collection “First Weekend of May”. It was created for the assignment for Bonnie Christine class on Skillshare “Surface Pattern Design 2.0: Design a Collection | Start a Career”. I’m a big fan of Bonnie artwork and teaching skills, I’ve written about her another class on my blog some time ago. This time the course was concentrated on creating a collection, and again I’ve learned a lot! We were asked to create the collection desription & mockups, so I will just repeat the process here, for anyone interested :)

My collection was inspired by one of the first warm and sunny weekends in Poland, that I spent with my friends in the countryside. That’s why a collection’s name is “First weekend of May”! Colours and shapes of plants (mainly yellow dandelions and blooming trees) all around were my inspiration board, I was just sitting on the grass, sketching. To give you the overall mood here, I’ve prepared a little set of pictures, using photos from the web/from my camera. You can also see some of my sketches below.

In the previous post I’ve shown the collection in the first colour palette, but then I created a second one, which I like more – it’ s so warm and sweet. While creating the collection, I was concentrating on scale, hue and complexity of the patterns. Below is my collection with the story description!